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Just a few years ago, David Peri and Leo Bergin teamed up to do what had never been done before; and today that risk has proven to be well worth it.

A long-time lettuce grower from Salinas, California, Mike had recently been working with Leo growing potatoes in Yerington, Nevada. Across the valley David Peri had been successfully growing, packing and shipping premium onions for 30 years. As fate would have it, the three men met and a new idea began to take root; why not try growing premium organic leafy greens in Northern Nevada? With Leo's support, Mike's extensive experience growing lettuce and David's expert knowledge of growing produce in Nevada, as well as the resources his company, Peri & Sons Farms' could offer, Nevada Fresh Pak took off in a new and fresh direction.

The team first planted just 500 acres of leafy greens. Fortunately David had already been growing a line of premium organic onions on this land, so the extensive preparation, documentation, testing and certification necessary to grow USDA Certified Organic produce—measures that can take years to accomplish—had already been completed allowing them to move forward quickly.

Today, Nevada Fresh Pak has become a successful grower/harvester with over 1,400 acres committed to organic leafy-greens production, and our business is growing.

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There once was a truck. David Peri remembers it well. It was a focal point of his childhood.

He smiles warmly as he recounts riding along with his father and uncle, delivering vegetables from his family's farm in Yerington, Nev., to grocery stores in the Reno community. Chuckling, he relates joyful memories of truck farming, as he calls it. It was a simpler time.

But as times changed, so did the distribution avenues for produce. In reality, these changes helped Peri, president and CEO of Peri & Sons Farms, to grow the family's modest farming operation into a highly successful, internationally known, produce business. In fact, today it's one of the largest seed-to-store onion suppliers in the world.

Expanding upon his success growing onions, in 2006 Peri began growing organic leafy greens as part of a new venture called Nevada Fresh Pak. Today he grows about 1,500 acres — producing 10 million to 12 million pounds annually — of organic leafy greens for some of the biggest distribution giants in the country. And that doesn't include the many other vegetables he produces, such as the million and a half pounds of broccoli each season.

New Route

While Peri continually is expanding the company's mega-operations, he recently decided to do something rather surprising — taking a step back in time to resurrect his old roots.

Nevada Fresh Pak will become the first title sponsor in the history of the Night in the Country Music Festival this July.

And, Orthopro of Carson City will sponsor the two-night fireworks display at the annual outdoor concerts.

That announcement came this week from the Boys and Girls Clubs of Mason Valley, which annually sponsors the Night in the Country as its primary fundraiser. The 2013 NIC is scheduled for July 26-27 at the Lyon County Fairgrounds in Yerington. ...